Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users
> actually determined during install? My experience is that these
> users actually preserve their uid over installations quite well.
nope. for example, on the old system, openldap account has a UID of
114. on new system, 105. numerous other daemon UID differences as
well. so a straight copy isn't going to work here. this just gets
trickier and trickier.
rday
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